VITAMIN RESEARCH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 243, 11 September 1934, Page 7

VITAMIN RESEARCH.

MANUFACTURE PROCESS FOUND. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 8. In an address on vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Professor Szent Gyomiyi described how he became interested in the properties of the adrenal gland, near the kidneys, defects in which cause the skin of human beings to go brown. After extracting a peculiar substance with the properties of vitamin C from the adrenal glands of an animal, he pursued his researches at Cambridge and prepared the same substance from plants and later in larger quantities in the United Staes. In his native country, Hungary, he discovered that parrika contained a . large quantity of this substance.

Chemical investigation in Birmingham and Zurich had shown that its constitution was surprisingly simple. Brilliant researches by Professor Haworth, Herr lteichstein and others had proved that it could be synthesised, and Professor Haworth and his colleagues had recently discovered a simple method enabling this vitamin to bo manufactured at a cost of a few pence an ounce. The process has been patented and the rights handed over to the British Government Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and tho proceeds were to be devoted to the advancement of science.